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Biography of John Toland (author) (excerpt)
John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - January 4, 2004 in Danbury, Connecticut) was an American author and historian.He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler. Toland tried to write history as a straightforward narrative, with minimal analysis or judgment.
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Biography of Felix Gilbert (excerpt)
Felix Gilbert (May 21, 1905 – February 14, 1991) was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe.Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to a middle class Jewish family.In the later half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin. ![]()
Biography of Pat Brown (excerpt)
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr.(April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967. Background Brown was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Edmund and Ida Schuckman Brown.He was one of four children.
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Biography of Chester Himes (excerpt)
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; two of his novels were made into feature films: Cotton Comes to Harlem directed by Ossie Davis in 1970 and A Rage in Harlem starring Gregory Hines and Danny Glover in 1991.
Biography of Fernanda Gattinoni (excerpt)
Fernanda Gattinoni, born December 20, 1907 in Gemonio, died December 26, 2002 in Rome, was an Italian stylist and fashion designer.
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Biography of Pierre-Henri Simon (excerpt)
Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde - 20 September 1972) was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet and literary critic. He won the Prix Eve Delacroix in 1963. Selected works Essays Destins de la personne, 1935 L'Église et la Révolution sociale, 1938
Biography of James Crenshaw (excerpt)
James Crenshaw, born May 24, 1908 in Richland, Oregon, is an American journalist and writer on psychic subjects. ![]()
Biography of Roy Acuff (excerpt)
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter.Known as the "King of Country Music," Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Galvani (excerpt)
Luigi Aloisio Galvani (Latin: Aloysius Galvani) (September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist and philosopher who lived and died in Bologna. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by a spark.:67-71 This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that still today studies the electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system.
Biography of Artur Balsam (excerpt)
Artur Balsam (February 8, 1906 in Warsaw, Poland – September 1, 1994 in New York) was a Polish-born American classical pianist and pedagogue. He studied in Łódź, making his debut there at the age of 12 then enrolled at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik.
Biography of Louis Bugette (excerpt)
Louis Bugette, born on May 29, 1904 in Saint-Florentin, Yonne, died on March 18, 1975 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography 1948 : Plus jolie qu'en un rêve, court métrage de Roger Blanc 1949 : On ne triche pas avec la vie de René Delacroix et Paul Vandenberghe 1949 : Le Parfum de la dame en noir de Louis Daquin 1949 : Un certain monsieur de Yves Ciampi 1949 : Drame au Vel d'Hiv' de Maurice Cam 1950 : Dieu a besoin des hommes de Jean Delannoy ![]()
Biography of Marcel Landowski (excerpt)
Marcel Landowski (18 February 1915 - 23 December 1999) was a French composer, biographer and arts administrator. Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, Brittany, he was the son of French sculptor Paul Landowski and great-grandson of the composer Henri Vieuxtemps. As an infant he showed early musical promise, and studied piano under Marguerite Long.
Biography of Pierre Destailles (excerpt)
Pierre Destailles, born Pierre André Jules Desfoux on May 16, 1909 in Paris, died on March 31, 1990 in Clayes-sous-Bois (Yvelines), was a French actor and singer. Filmography 1946 : Tombé du ciel d'Emil-Edwin Reinert : Fernand 1948 : Les Casse-Pieds de Jean Dréville : L'employé du gaz 1949 : Suzanne et ses brigands d'Yves Ciampi : L'aubergiste 1949 : L'Atomique Monsieur Placido de Robert Hennion : Le gérant de l'hôtel 1949 : Branquignol de Robert Dhéry : Pierrot 1949 : Millionnaires d'un jour d'André Hunebelle : Le cafetier ![]()
Biography of Blanche Montel (excerpt)
Blanche Montel (14 August 1902 – 31 March 1998), was a French actress. She appeared in 33 films between 1914 and 1943. She was born in Tours, France and died in Luzarches, France. Filmography (extract) A Tragedy in the Clouds Barrabas Chichinette et Cie The Two Girls ![]()
Biography of Steffi Duna (excerpt)
Steffi Duna (8 February 1910 – 22 April 1992) was a Hungarian-born film actress popular in American and British films during the 1930s. Hungarian Dancer Born Stephanie Berindey in Budapest of Czechoslovakian extraction, Duna first attracted attention as a thirteen year old ballet dancer in Europe.
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Biography of Gianandrea Gavazzeni (excerpt)
Gianandrea Gavazzeni (25 July 1909 - 5 February 1996) was an Italian pianist, conductor (especially of opera), composer and musicologist. Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting from 1948, he was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, in 1966-68 being its music and artistic director. ![]()
Biography of Willy Ley (excerpt)
Willy Ley (December 2, 1906 - June 24, 1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
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Biography of Van Alexander (excerpt)
Van Alexander (né Alexander Van Vliet Feldman, b.May 2, 1915) is an American bandleader, arranger, and composer. Alexander led bands and arranged from high school, and studied composition in college.He landed a job selling arrangements to Chick Webb in the middle of the 1930s.
Biography of Dmitri Baltermants (excerpt)
Dmitri Baltermants (May 13, 1912 – 1990) was a prominent Soviet-era photojournalist. He was born in Warsaw, Poland.His father served in the Imperial Russian Army and was killed in the First World War. Baltermants graduated from the Moscow State University to become a math teacher, but fell in love with photography and began a career in the field of photojournalism. ![]()
Biography of T-Bone Walker (excerpt)
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound.He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the electric guitar. ![]()
Biography of Ghulam Ishaq Khan (excerpt)
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Pashto: غلام اسحاق خان, Urdu: غلام اسحاق خان; January 20, 1915 – October 27, 2006), abbreviated as GIK, was the 7th President of Pakistan from August 17, 1988 until July 18, 1993 and a career statesman from the start to the end of cold war.
Biography of Olivier Hussenot (excerpt)
Olivier Hussenot (10 August 1913 - 25 August 1978) was a French actor. Selected filmography 1962 La Vendetta 1961 Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles 1960 Les Scélérats 1958 Maigret Sets a Trap 1957 Lovers of Paris 1955 Bedevilled 1952 Fanfan la Tulipe ![]()
Biography of Walter Zapp (excerpt)
Walter Zapp (Latvian: Valters Caps; September 4, 1905 – July 17, 2003) was a Latvian inventor.His greatest creation was the subminiature camera (Minox). Zapp was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia.In 1934, living in Estonia, he began developing the then subminiature camera by first creating wooden models, which led to the first prototype in 1936. ![]()
Biography of Hanns-Martin Schleyer (excerpt)
Hanns-Martin Schleyer (Offenburg, Germany, May 1, 1915 – October 18, 1977) was a German manager and employer and industry representative, serving as President of the two influential organizations Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) and Federation of German Industries (BDI).While serving both functions, he was kidnapped on 5 September 1977 by the extreme-left terrorist organisation Red Army Faction (RAF) and murdered one and a half months later after the German government did not give in to RAF's demands. ![]()
Biography of Irene Hervey (excerpt)
Irene Hervey (July 11, 1909 – December 20, 1998) was an American television and film actress. Biography Career Born Beulah Irene Herwick in Los Angeles, California, she began her acting career after being introduced to a casting agent from MGM.After a successful screen test, she was signed by the studio and made her screen debut in the 1933 film The Stranger's Return, opposite Lionel Barrymore. ![]()
Biography of John W. Gardner (excerpt)
John William Gardner, (October 8, 1912–February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson.He was also President of the Carnegie Corporation and the founder of two influential national U.S.organizations: Common Cause and Independent Sector.He authored books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects.
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Biography of Constant Lambert (excerpt)
Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was a British composer and conductor. Early life Lambert was the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert. Educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music, Lambert was a prodigy, writing orchestral works from the age of 13, and at 20 received a commission to write a ballet for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Romeo and Juliet).
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Biography of Maria Caniglia (excerpt)
Maria Caniglia (May 3, 1905 – April 16, 1979) was one of the leading Italian dramatic sopranos of the 1930s and 1940s. Life and career Caniglia was born in Naples and studied at the Music Conservatories of Naples with Agostino Roche.She made her professional debut in Turin as Chrysothemis in Elektra in 1930.
Biography of Ted Key (excerpt)
Ted Key, born Theodore Keyser (August 25, 1912 – May 3, 2008), was an American cartoonist and writer.He is best known as the creator of the cartoon series Hazel. College to cartoons Ted Key was born in Fresno, California, the son of Latvian immigrant Simon Keyser, who had changed his name from Katseff to Keyser, and then to "Key" during World War I.
Biography of Robert Beatty (excerpt)
Robert Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the United Kingdom. Career Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Beatty began his acting career in Britain in 1939. ![]()
Biography of Marion Talley (excerpt)
Marion Talley, born December 10, 1906 in Nevada, Missouri, died January 3, 1983 in Berverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, was an American singer and actress.
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Biography of Joshua Logan (excerpt)
Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer. Early years Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas.His father died when Logan was only three, and his mother remarried six years later.He was reared in Mansfield, Louisiana. ![]()
Biography of Giorgio Amendola (excerpt)
Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 – 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician. Born in Rome in 1907, he was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kuhn and Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after having been attacked by killers hired by Benito Mussolini.
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Biography of William Haade (excerpt)
William Haade (March 2, 1903 – November 15, 1966) was an American film actor.He appeared in over 250 films between 1937 and 1957.He was born in New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography The Invisible Menace (1938) He Couldn't Say No (1938) Rulers of the Sea (1939) Night Work (1939) Affectionately Yours (1941) The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) The Spoilers (1942) Pittsburgh (1942) Daredevils of the West (1943) . ![]()
Biography of David Brower (excerpt)
David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.
Biography of Alfie Bass (excerpt)
Alfred Bass (born Abraham Basalinsky, 8 April 1916 (source: Imdb) – 15 July 1987) was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; their parents had fled persecution in Russia. He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career.
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Biography of Esther Figueiredo Ferraz (excerpt)
Esther Figueiredo Ferraz (February 6, 1916 - September 23, 2008) was the first female Minister to serve in the government of Brazil. Ferraz served as the Brazilian Minister of Education from 1982 until 1985. Esther Ferraz was born in São Paulo on February 6, 1929. ![]()
Biography of Leopold Trepper (excerpt)
Leopold Trepper (March 7, 1904 - January 19, 1982) was an organizer of the Soviet spy ring Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra) prior to and during World War II. Leopold Trepper was born to a Jewish family on February 23, 1904, in Zakopane. ![]()
Biography of Charles Bettelheim (excerpt)
Charles Bettelheim (November 20, 1913, Paris - July 20, 2006) was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI : "Centre pour l'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation") at the Sorbonne), economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization.
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Biography of Christopher Cockerell (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE FRS (June 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. Life Cockerell was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris. ![]()
Biography of Bernard Katz (excerpt)
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970. ![]()
Biography of Anna Lee (excerpt)
Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith, 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was an English actress. Career Lee studied at the Royal Albert Hall, then debuted with a bit part in the film His Lordship (1932).When she and her first husband, director Robert Stevenson, moved to Hollywood she became associated with John Ford, appearing in several of his films, notably How Green Was My Valley, Two Rode Together and Fort Apache.
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Biography of Robert Vattier (excerpt)
Robert Vattier, born October 2, 1906 in Rennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died December 9, 1982 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) 1931 : Marius, d'Alexander Korda 1932 : Fanny, de Marc Allégret 1934 : Jeanne, de Georges Marret ![]()
Biography of Anne-Pierre de Montesquiou-Fezensac (excerpt)
Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (October 17, 1739 - December 30, 1798) was a French general and writer. He was born in Paris, of an ancient family of Armagnac.He was brought up with the children of the king of France, and showed some taste for letters.
Biography of Michel Vitold (excerpt)
Michel Vitold, born Mykhaylo Sazhanov on September 15, 1914 (some sources give 1915) in Kharkov, Ukraine, died on June 14, 1994 in Clamart, France, was a French actor and film director. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0900062/ ) 1993 La joie de vivre Henri Jolly 1992 Listopad 1991 La florentine (TV mini-series) Pierre de Brévailles 1991 V comme vengeance (TV series) Le médecin – Le billard écarlate (1991) … Le médecin 1990 Les chevaliers de la table ronde Le Roi Pêcheur 1990 Les matins chagrins Georges 1989 Haute tension (TV series) Klaka – Eaux troubles (1989) … Klaka 1989 La compagnie de Sarah (TV movie) Le colonel 1988 Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (TV series)
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Biography of June Collyer (excerpt)
June Collyer (August 19, 1906 – March 16, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. Early life and career Born Dorothea Heermance in New York City, Collyer chose to use her mother's maiden name when she decided to pursue acting.
Biography of Maurice Sarthou (excerpt)
Maurice Sarthou, born January 15, 1911 in Bayonne, died in 2000 in Paris, was a French painter.
Biography of John Tukey (excerpt)
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American statistician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Biography Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A.in 1936 and M.Sc. ![]()
Biography of Allen Funt (excerpt)
Allen Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999) was an American television producer, director and writer, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular show or a series of specials. ![]()
Biography of Eddie Lang (excerpt)
Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as the Father of Jazz Guitar.He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt. Biography Lang was born Salvatore Massaro, the son of an Italian-American instrument maker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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